Re: [ARSCLIST] DAT's - where to look for specialized restoration services

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:11 PM 9/27/2006, John Loy wrote:
> I have a DAT that has been damaged. The tape has been stretched and 
> broken. I am sure timecode is lost in the strectched section any 
> ideas on how I can get a playback and transfer?
> John

Hello, John,

Dennis at NXT Generation is a DAT repairman and also does DAT 
transfers from hard-to-play tapes. I would suggest contacting him.

I'd love you folks to start looking at the Formats and Resources 
section of my blog at www.richardhess.com/notes as much of this basic 
information is already there. I have an extensive hierarchy of media 
types and for each type I suggest places where it might get 
transferred. Of course, for those formats I handle, I list myself 
first, but I also list others.

For DATs, the specific page is:
http://richardhess.com/notes/formats/magnetic-media/magnetic-tapes/digital-audio/
Dennis's contact info is listed there.

Notice it's a hierarchy:
magnetic media
   magnetic tapes
        digital audio

The top level categories are:
magnetic media (the bulk of the site)
magneto-optical
mechanical media
optical media

You can see all these categories in the sidebar on every page in the 
formats section.

I also added a new page for azimuth adjustment for analog tapes which 
you can find at www.richardhess.com/notes/

Below the Formats and Resources in the sidebar are a list of 
CATEGORIES or, at the top of the sidebar, you can quickly search the 
site for a keyword, although I'll admit that DAT isn't very good as 
the search engine finds DATa as well. A Google Site Search might be 
better for that one. Indeed, searching Google with the following:
      site:richardhess.com/notes/ DAT
gets the page on the first hit.

Cheers,

Richard


Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada       (905) 713 6733     1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.